A 49-year-old man shot by an Edgewater police officer in Wheat Ridge over the weekend, allegedly after pulling a gun out of a vehicle following a crash, has died, police said on Monday.
A 37-year-old woman who was driving the vehicle has been treated at a hospital and booked into the Jefferson County jail on unrelated outstanding warrants for third-degree assault, vehicle eluding and resisting arrest, according to a statement from Edgewater police Chief Randy McNitt.
The man, identified Monday as Barry Sullivan, died of “at least one gunshot wound,” McNitt said.
He was the passenger in the vehicle driven by Amber O’Neal, McNitt said.
The shooting happened Saturday morning after a GMC Yukon crashed into a Honda Pilot and then into the garage of a home near West 32nd Avenue and Pierce Street, Edgewater police said. The man in the Yukon got out after the crash and grabbed a gun, police said.
A police officer confronted him, leading to “an exchange of gunfire,” and paramedics took the man to a hospital in critical condition, police said.
The Edgewater officer wasn’t injured in the shooting. The driver of the Honda Pilot was evaluated for minor injuries at a hospital.
Wheat Ridge police were investigating the crash. A First Judicial District Critical Incident Response Team was investigating the police shooting.
The officer involved has been placed on administrative leave pending the results of that investigation.
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